The RPi is probably frozen in time but any thing external (periferal) will be subject to Moore's Law and therefore the chances of an old forum post 2 years down the road has a high probability of having some degree of obcelecence.

It was just a comment pointing out that elapsed time is the issue.

Even the RPi has doubled it's memory in 6 months.

Noob is not derogatory the noob is just the lower end of the noob--geek spectrum being a noob is just your first step towards being an uber-geek

If you find a solution please post it in the wiki the forum dies too quick

The scandal , I interpret, is the way in which SSD's are addressed. Theoretically, I think, LBA capable computers should be able to address an SSD's storage without translation - in other words 'raw'. Is that now the case or am I simply wrong?

It wasn't my intention to go scaremongering, but I see how that could be construed. No, what I'm really after is a problem free drive with good longevity. I don't need the fastest thing under the sun but I do need something that's not going to blink out on me along with the day's work. I also dislike manufacturers overzealous claims concerning storage capacity. We've always lost a tad to formatting but then to say 1 TB is a billion bytes is the sort of thing one expects from an accountancy firm rather than a computer peripheral manufacturer.

RaTTuS, you've got one working.. what make and model is it please? If I see one then I'll know that it should work. 2 out of 3 hard drives have been rejected by HFormat and the one that wasn't rejected makes more noise than a furry's convention.

http://www.suntekstore.com/goods-100102 ... c_ssd.htmlis exactly the one I got.I dont know how long it will last - but seem to be fine so farmy system has been up for 66daysit does need to be powered via a usb Y cable ...actuallyI thought I had it conencted to my 512MB RPi but it is a 256MB one...